FERTILITY
What is average male sperm count?
Dr. Shuk Mei Ho found that long-term exposure to estrogen can induce this disease
What is prostate cancer?
Appropriate levels of this hormone are extremely important in early cognitive development
What is thyroid hormone?
Mandate issued by a joint session of the Hormone Avengers
What is the Wingspread Statement?
Taiwanese boys born of mothers exposed to highly PCB-contaminated cooking oil shared this abnormality with certain Lake Apopka residents
What are shorter penises?
At the time of OSF's publishing, rates of this disease had tripled over the past 50 years
What is testicular cancer?
Behavioral abnormality exhibited by offspring of mice fed low doses of PCBs
What is "spinning syndrome"?
The shape of Frederick Vom Saal's DES dose response curve
What is a parabola?
PCBS accelerate the breakdown of this pregnancy-maintaining hormone
What is progesterone?
This pesticide breakdown product was found hanging out in breast cancer tumors
What is DDE?
These chemicals, commonly found in human tissue and breast milk, reduce T4 levels when rats are exposed to them prenatally.
What are PCB-118 and PCB-153?
Researcher who found that offspring of rats fed Lake Ontario salmon were "hyper-reactive" to mildly negative situations
Who is Helen Daly?
Belgian researchers found that in 10 years, this had declined from 39.6% to 27.8%
What is the percentage of well-formed human sperm?
Post-menopausal women with these structures are more likely to develop breast cancer
What are estrogen-responsive tumors?
Children whose mothers had lots of these in their diets performed worse on cognitive tests and were "hyper-reactive"
What are Lake Michigan fish?
Author of "The Sexual Brain"
Who is Simon LeVay?
What is endometriosis?
Cornell studies showing increases in "bad" estrogen when breast cancers cells were exposed to DDE, PCBs, atrazine, etc. took place in this experimental setting
What are in vitro/test tube studies?
Rats fed Lake Ontario salmon still showed behavioral differences in this generation
What are grandchildren?
Researcher who found that male rats exposed to PCBs via breastmilk were infertile or could not produce viable offspring
Who is Dorothea Sager?